England vs India 1st Test at Birmingham, 01 Aug, 2018

Toss: England, who chose to bat
England 287/10 (89.4)  &  180/10 (53)
India 274/10 (76)  &  162/10 (54.2)
England won by 31 runs
Man of the Match: Sam Curran
  • Umesh Yadav 0 * (8)

Over 46.5 Ben Stokes bowls a good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, no runs, gets behind the line on the front foot and blocks it down the pitch.

Over 46.6 Ben Stokes bowls a good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, no runs, gets forward and looks to play inside the line, the ball beats the outside edge of the bat.

Over 47.2 Sam Curran bowls a pitched up delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, no runs, gets forward and eases the drive to mid-off

Over 47.3 Sam Curran bowls a good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, no runs, stays on the front foot and defends it down the pitch back to the bowler.

Over 47.4 Sam Curran bowls a pitched up delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, no runs, gets forward and drives and gets a thick inside edge back to Curran.

Over 47.5 Sam Curran bowls a good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, Boundary! Goes deep in the crease and open the face of the bat and run it down to third man fence for four.

Over 47.6 Sam Curran bowls a good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, 2 runs, gets back in the crease and punches it away through cover and picks up a couple of runs.

That is Tea on Day 2.India trail by 127 runs with 4 wickets in hand

Over 49.1Sam Curran bowls pitched up delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Boundary!

Over 49.2Sam Curran bowls good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, gets forward and defends it towards the bowler.No runs

Over 49.3Sam Curran bowls good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, gets forward and defends it towards the bowler.No runs

Over 49.4Sam Curran bowls short of length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, gets forward and defends it towards the bowler.No runs

Over 49.5Sam Curran bowls good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, gets forward and defends it towards the bowler.No runs

Over 49.6Sam Curran bowls short of length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, gets forward and leaves it outside off to the wicket keeper.No runs

Over 50.2JM Anderson bowls short of length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, gets forward and defends it towards silly point.No runs

Over 50.3JM Anderson bowls good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, and that’s the end of his stay in the middle, clean bowled! .Bowled him!